Timothy Herrmann - July 6, 2012

The UNFPA left the Rio +20 conference on sustainable development without anything to show for its efforts. Not a single one of their hard fought suggestions ever made it into the text. Their presence at the conference could hardly even be felt, except through a few countries like New Zealand, Norway and Iceland, which were given the important task of both proposing and fighting for the inclusion of the population control language the UNFPA wanted in the document.

It has not announced that it was defeated, and all of its press releases related to the conference pretend as if the conference was a success for the agency.

But they lost. And it was embarrassing. Though hard to believe, the UNFPA, one of the most well funded and active UN agencies that exists, did not have any success at Rio +20 in affecting the final outcome document. But how could that be? The simple answer is the fear of population control.

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4 Problems With The London Family Planning Summit Goals

By Nicholas Eberstadt
February 9, 2009

President Obama has ended the ban on federal funds imposed by the Bush Administration on groups that promote or perform abortions abroad and on the United Nations Population Fund. He must take this opportunity to put pressure on the UNFPA to concentrate on the health of women and babies–and to stop wasting money assaulting the poor with wrongheaded population-control schemes.

“Continued rapid population growth poses a bigger threat to poverty reduction in most countries than HIV/AIDS,” the UNFPA said in an hysterical statement on World Population Day, last July. This is plain wrong: it is not human numbers that cause poverty, but bad economic policies, laws and institutions.

The densely-populated Netherlands and Japan are prosperous but poor in resources, while much of impoverished Africa is thinly populated but rich in resources. The United States rose to affluence with one of the world’s highest long-term population growth rates, while now-prosperous Ireland had negative long-term rates. Clearly, neither human numbers nor natural resources are keys to the modern story of global wealth and poverty.

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Arie Hoekman, representative of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

MEXICO CITY, February 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A leader in the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has declared that the breakdown of traditional families, far from being a “crisis,” is actually a triumph for human rights.

Speaking at a colloquium held last month at Colegio Mexico in Mexico City, UNFPA representative Arie Hoekman denounced the idea that high rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock births represent a social crisis, claiming that they represent instead the triumph of “human rights” against “patriarchy.”

“In the eyes of conservative forces, these changes mean that the family is in crisis,” he said. “In crisis? More than a crisis, we are in the presence of a weakening of the patriarchal structure, as a result of the disappearance of the economic base that sustains it and because of the rise of new values centered in the recognition of fundamental human rights.”

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Also see: The Huffington Post Gets It Wrong–Again, The Population Research Institute’s extensive report back in 2001: UNFPA, China And Coercive Family Planning [pdf], and the Collins brothers’ The Floodgates Open Wide: Obama and our Eugenical Future.

Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. - September 18, 2008

(NEW YORK – C-FAM)  At United Nations headquarters last week, UN Population Fund (UNFPA) executive director Thoraya Obaid called for more funding for population programs, including reducing fertility, promoting “reproductive health services,” and “de-stigmatizing” sodomy.

Obaid began her remarks by commemorating the 40th anniversary of Paul Erlich’s book, The Population Bomb, which alarmed readers about the threat of “overpopulation” and justified the establishment of UNFPA. While she admitted the book’s prediction of “massive starvation on a large scale has not come to pass,” she nonetheless called for renewed commitment to boilerplate population control policies such as promoting smaller families, warning nations that world population had grown from 3.5 billion to 6.7 billion since 1968.

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